P51 request

[Vraciu]

You can look at it directly.  Its a file called P51D_N.bmp located in the p51d folder of the skins directory.   Greebo's tutorial in a thread stickied above has information on how to create it.

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Ah, that's right.   Thank you. 

[pxdig]

So, whatever happened to this request for the 355FG/354FS ???

[Vraciu]

So, whatever happened to this request for the 355FG/354FS ???

The D skin slots are full.  Oboe is working on this skin--and a few others, all of them really nice.  Once a slot opens up (either through some orphans being purged or the 3D model being revamped) I am sure he will submit it.   

[oboe]

I stopped working on it after Vraciu took the last open P-51D slot.

[pxdig]

 


Damn you,vraciu  !!

[Vraciu]

 


Damn you,vraciu  !!

Excuse me...........?

The skin that "took" (?) the final D slot was quite well received and was a bit of a group effort.   (Everyone from Hitech/Skuzzy to Oboe helped.)   It is the relatively rare OD P-51D. 

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,385287.0.html

There is no shortage of deserving skins that cannot get into the game, a few of mine included.  I take umbrage at your implication.   

[oboe]

pxdig,

To my knowledge Skuzzy has never advocated or agreed to purge orphaned skins.   Its been suggested more than once, but all I've seen him say on the subject when asked directly is that he doesn't like to think about it; it gives him a headache.  To the contrary, I've seen him state he is against replacing skins because some squads may prefer a particular skin and if it is removed they get upset.

Also, if and when the 3D model of the P-51 is revamped, I will have nothing to submit - the texture map will surely change and no one's existing skins will be compatible - everyone will have to start over.  That is the nature of a 3D model change.   

[Vraciu]

pxdig,

To my knowledge Skuzzy has never advocated or agreed to purge orphaned skins.   Its been suggested more than once, but all I've seen him say on the subject when asked directly is that he doesn't like to think about it; it gives him a headache.  To the contrary, I seen him state he is strongly against replacing skins because some squads may prefer a particular skin and if it is removed they get upset.

Also, if and when the 3D model of the P-51 is revamped, I will have nothing to submit - the texture map will surely change and no one's existing skins will be compatible - everyone will have to start over.  That is the nature of a 3D model change.

However......   In the B section there *IS* a duplicate skin, best I can tell.  Fencer is still in the game so his should obviously stay, but the other one should go.   This is assuming I am correct.  Maybe it is not a duplicate.   QP*L and QP*L "Salem Representative". 

[Fencer51]

However......   In the B section there *IS* a duplicate skin, best I can tell.  Fencer is still in the game so his should obviously stay, but the other one should go.   This is assuming I am correct.  Maybe it is not a duplicate.   QP*L and QP*L "Salem Representative". 

It is not a duplicate.  At different times during the war aircraft were lost and others took their "squadron codes".  Machnix's P-51B is from the fall of 1944 long after Hofer's QP-L was transferred to another pilot and changed to QP-F.  It was subsequently lost in a taxi incident on July 17, 1944.

Of course there is the whole different serial number thing...

[Vraciu]

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It is not a duplicate.  At different times during the war aircraft were lost and others took their "squadron codes".  Machnix's P-51B is from the fall of 1944 long after Hofer's QP-L was transferred to another pilot and changed to QP-F.  It was subsequently lost in a taxi incident on July 17, 1944.

Of course there is the whole different serial number thing...

I am aware of the serial number "thing" Fencer.   I was not able to find the machine online anywhere (and happened to transpose the serial numbers in my head)-- that's why I asked about it here.  (How ironic that you are criticizing me for misreading a serial number when you did the same thing over 43-12391 in another thread.)

I repeatedly asserted that I was possibly wrong.

However......   In the B section there *IS* a duplicate skin, best I can tell.  Fencer is still in the game so his should obviously stay, but the other one should go.   This is assuming I am correct.  Maybe it is not a duplicate.   QP*L and QP*L "Salem Representative". 

Of course there is the whole reading thing...

[Vraciu]

Unintentional post.

[pxdig]

Excuse me...........?

The skin that "took" (?) the final D slot was quite well received and was a bit of a group effort.   (Everyone from Hitech/Skuzzy to Oboe helped.)   It is the relatively rare OD P-51D. 

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,385287.0.html

There is no shortage of deserving skins that cannot get into the game, a few of mine included.  I take umbrage at your implication.   


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Don't take it personally,  I thought the multiple emojis banging their head made it clear it was a comical over the top comment.  You made a great looking skin and submitted it first, no harm no foul.  You were just faster than Oboe.


 

Damn you, Oboe !!!!

[Vraciu]

 

 

Now that made me laugh.   

(And thanks for the compliment.)

[oboe]

I decided to finish this skin and took a bunch of screen shots of it today.  Tried to try to turn one of them into a vintage-looking color photo:

[lyric1]

I decided to finish this skin and took a bunch of screen shots of it today.  Tried to try to turn one of them into a vintage-looking color photo:
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Been a long while for this aircraft to get into the game.
I recall Gaboon said he was a relative of the pilot of this plane.